Method and apparatus for performing wireless communication in unlicensed band

ABSTRACT

Provided are a method and a device performing wireless communication in an unlicensed band, which receives information on allocating a radio resource in a system bandwidth made up of a plurality of subbands, receives information on a LBT (Listen Before Talk) failure region among the radio resource, and receives a downlink signal in other regions in the radio resource, except the LBT failure region.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

If applicable, this application claims priority under 35 U.S.C § 119(a)of Patent Application No. 10-2018-0082560, filed on Jul. 16, 2018,Patent Application No. 10-2018-0110332, filed on Sep. 14, 2018, andPatent Application No. 10-2019-0071954, filed on Jun. 18, 2019, inKorea, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein byreference.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention

The present disclosure relates to a method and a device of performingwireless communication in a next generation mobile communicationnetwork, and more specifically, to a method and a device of performingwireless communication considering failure of LBT (Listen Before Talk)for an unlicensed band.

2. Description of the Prior Art

Recently, the 3^(rd) generation partnership project (3GPP) has approvedthe “Study on New Radio Access Technology”, which is a study item forresearch on next-generation/5G radio access technology (hereinafter,referred to as “new radio” or “NR”). On the basis of the Study on NewRadio Access Technology, Radio Access Network Working Group 1 (RAN WG1)has been discussing frame structures, channel coding and modulation,waveforms, multiple access methods, and the like for the new radio (NR).It is required to design the NR not only to provide an improved datatransmission rate as compared with the long term evolution(LTE)/LTE-Advanced, but also to meet various requirements in detailedand specific usage scenarios.

An enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine-type communication(mMTC), and ultra reliable and low latency communication (URLLC) areproposed as representative usage scenarios of the NR. In order to meetthe requirements of the individual scenarios, it is required to designthe NR to have flexible frame structures, compared with theLTE/LTE-Advanced.

Because the requirements for data rates, latency, reliability, coverage,etc. are different from each other, there is a need for a method forefficiently multiplexing a radio resource unit based on differentnumerologies from other (E.g., subcarrier spacing, subframe,Transmission Time Interval (TTI), etc.) as a method for efficientlysatisfying each usage scenario requirement through a frequency bandconstituting any NR system.

One aspect, it is necessary to develop a method of performing wirelesscommunication according to a result of performing LBT on a plurality ofsubbands constituting an unlicensed band in the NR.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, methods anddevices are provided for efficiently performing wireless communicationwhen resource allocation is performed over a plurality of subbands in aunlicensed band and when a part of the subbands of an allocated resourceis in an unavailable state or not available.

In addition, in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure,methods and devices are provided for transmitting information about anLBT failure region, which is a subband in an unavailable state when theresource allocation is performed over the plurality of the subbands inthe unlicensed band.

In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a method of auser equipment is provided for performing the wireless communication inan unlicensed band. The method includes: receiving information onallocating a radio resource in a system bandwidth composed of aplurality of subbands, receiving information on a LBT (Listen BeforeTalk) failure region among the radio resource and receiving a downlinksignal in other regions, except the LBT failure region, in the radioresource.

In accordance with another aspect of the present disclosure, a method ofa base station is provided for performing the wireless communication inan unlicensed band. The method includes: performing a LBT (Listen BeforeTalk) for each of subbands in a system bandwidth composed of a pluralityof the subbands, transmitting information on allocating a radio resourcein the system bandwidth, transmitting information on a LBT (ListenBefore Talk) failure region among the radio resource, and transmitting adownlink signal in other region s, except the LBT failure region, in theradio resource.

In accordance with further another aspect of the present disclosure, auser equipment is provided for performing the wireless communication inan unlicensed band. The user equipment includes: a receiver receivinginformation on allocating a radio resource in a system bandwidthcomposed of a plurality of subbands and information on a LBT (ListenBefore Talk) failure region among the radio resource, and receiving adownlink signal in other region s, except the LBT failure region, in theradio resource, and a controller controlling an operation of thereceiver.

In accordance with yet another aspect of the present disclosure, a basestation is provided for performing the wireless communication in anunlicensed band. The base station includes: a controller performing aLBT (Listen Before Talk) for each of subbands in a system bandwidthcomposed of a plurality of the subbands, and a transmitter transmittinginformation on allocating a radio resource in the system bandwidth andinformation on a LBT (Listen Before Talk) failure region among the radioresource; and transmitting a downlink signal in other region s, exceptthe LBT failure region, in the radio resource.

Methods and devices according to embodiments of the present disclosuremay efficiently perform the wireless communication in an unlicensed bandwhen resource allocation is performed over the plurality of the subbandsin the unlicensed band and a part of the subbands of an allocatedresource is in an unavailable state or not available.

Methods and devices according to embodiments of the present disclosuremay transmit information about an LBT failure region, which is a subbandin an unavailable state when the resource allocation is performed overthe plurality of the subbands in the unlicensed band.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above and other aspects, features, and advantages of the presentdisclosure will be more apparent from the following detailed descriptiontaken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a view schematically illustrating an NR wireless communicationsystem to which at least one embodiment is applicable;

FIG. 2 is a view for explaining a frame structure in an NR system towhich at least one embodiment is applicable;

FIG. 3 is a view for explaining resource grids supported by a radioaccess technology to which at least one embodiment is applicable;

FIG. 4 is a view for explaining bandwidth parts supported by a radioaccess technology to which at least one embodiment is applicable;

FIG. 5 is a view illustrating an example of a synchronization signalblock in a radio access technology to which at least one embodiment isapplicable;

FIG. 6 is a view for explaining a random access procedure in a radioaccess technology to which at least one embodiment is applicable;

FIG. 7 is a view for explaining CORESET;

FIG. 8 is a view illustrating an example of symbol-level alignment indifferent SCSs to which at least one embodiment is applicable;

FIG. 9 is a view for explaining an NR time domain structure according tosubcarrier spacing to which at least one embodiment is applicable;

FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure for performing wirelesscommunication using information on an LBT failure region in anunlicensed band of a UE according to one embodiment;

FIG. 11 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure for performing wirelesscommunication using information on an LBT failure region in anunlicensed band of a base station according to the other embodiment;

FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining an LBT for wireless communication ina unlicensed band according to an exemplary embodiment of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 13 is a diagram for explaining a sub-band of a unlicensed bandaccording to an embodiment;

FIG. 14 is a view for explaining a transmission region in a case wheremultiple start points are supported in a unlicensed band according tothe embodiment;

FIGS. 15 and 16 are diagrams for explaining a DCI format includinginformation on an LBT failure region according to the embodiment;

FIG. 17 is a view illustrating a user equipment according to anembodiment and

FIG. 18 is a view illustrating a base station according to anembodiment.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS

Hereinafter, some embodiments of the present disclosure will bedescribed in detail with reference to the accompanying illustrativedrawings. In the drawings, like reference numerals are used to denotelike elements throughout the drawings, even if they are shown ondifferent drawings. Further, in the following description of the presentdisclosure, a detailed description of known functions and configurationsincorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matterof the present disclosure rather unclear. When the expression “include”,“have”, “comprise”, or the like as mentioned herein is used, any otherpart may be added unless the expression “only” is used. When an elementis expressed in the singular, the element may cover the plural formunless a special mention is explicitly made of the element.

In addition, terms, such as first, second, A, B, (a), (b) or the likemay be used herein when describing components of the present disclosure.Each of these terminologies is not used to define an essence, order orsequence of a corresponding component but used merely to distinguish thecorresponding component from other component(s).

In describing the positional relationship between components, if two ormore components are described as being “connected”, “combined”, or“coupled” to each other, it should be understood that two or morecomponents may be directly “connected”, “combined”, or “coupled” to eachother, and that two or more components may be “connected”, “combined”,or “coupled” to each other with another component “interposed”therebetween. In this case, another component may be included in atleast one of the two or more components that are “connected”,“combined”, or “coupled” to each other.

In the description of a sequence of operating methods or manufacturingmethods, for example, the expressions using “after”, “subsequent to”,“next”, “before”, and the like may also encompass the case in whichoperations or processes are performed discontinuously unless“immediately” or “directly” is used in the expression.

Numerical values for components or information corresponding thereto(e.g., levels or the like), which are mentioned herein, may beinterpreted as including an error range caused by various factors (e.g.,process factors, internal or external impacts, noise, etc.) even if anexplicit description thereof is not provided.

The wireless communication system in the present specification refers toa system for providing various communication services, such as a voiceservice and a data service, using radio resources. The wirelesscommunication system may include a user equipment (UE), a base station,a core network, and the like.

Embodiments disclosed below may be applied to a wireless communicationsystem using various radio access technologies. For example, theembodiments may be applied to various radio access technologies such ascode division multiple access (CDMA), frequency division multiple access(FDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), orthogonal frequencydivision multiple access (OFDMA), single-carrier frequency divisionmultiple access (SC-FDMA), non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), or thelike. In addition, the radio access technology may refer to respectivegeneration communication technologies established by variouscommunication organizations, such as 3GPP, 3GPP2, WiFi, Bluetooth, IEEE,ITU, or the like, as well as a specific access technology. For example,CDMA may be implemented as a wireless technology such as universalterrestrial radio access (UTRA) or CDMA2000. TDMA may be implemented asa wireless technology such as global system for mobile communications(GSM)/general packet radio service (GPRS)/enhanced data rates for GSMevolution (EDGE). OFDMA may be implemented as a wireless technology suchas IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.11(Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802-20, evolved UTRA (E-UTRA), andthe like. IEEE 802.16m is evolution of IEEE 802.16e, which providesbackward compatibility with systems based on IEEE 802.16e. UTRA is apart of a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS). 3GPP(3rd-generation partnership project) LTE (long-term evolution) is a partof E-UMTS (evolved UMTS) using evolved-UMTS terrestrial radio access(E-UTRA), which adopts OFDMA in a downlink and SC-FDMA in an uplink. Asdescribed above, the embodiments may be applied to radio accesstechnologies that have been launched or commercialized, and may beapplied to radio access technologies that are being developed or will bedeveloped in the future.

The UE used in the specification must be interpreted as a broad meaningthat indicates a device including a wireless communication module thatcommunicates with a base station in a wireless communication system. Forexample, the UE includes user equipment (UE) in WCDMA, LTE, NR, HSPA,IMT-2020 (5G or New Radio), and the like, a mobile station in GSM, auser terminal (UT), a subscriber station (SS), a wireless device, andthe like. In addition, the UE may be a portable user device, such as asmart phone, or may be a vehicle, a device including a wirelesscommunication module in the vehicle, and the like in a V2X communicationsystem according to the usage type thereof. In the case of amachine-type communication (MTC) system, the UE may refer to an MTCterminal, an M2M terminal, or a URLLC terminal, which employs acommunication module capable of performing machine-type communication.

A base station or a cell in the present specification refers to an endthat communicates with a UE through a network and encompasses variouscoverage regions such as a Node-B, an evolved Node-B (eNB), a gNode-B, alow-power node (LPN), a sector, a site, various types of antennas, abase transceiver system (BTS), an access point, a point (e.g., atransmission point, a reception point, or a transmission/receptionpoint), a relay node, a megacell, a macrocell, a microcell, a picocell,a femtocell, a remote radio head (RRH), a radio unit (RU), a small cell,and the like. In addition, the cell may be used as a meaning including abandwidth part (BWP) in the frequency domain. For example, the servingcell may refer to an active BWP of a UE.

The various cells listed above are provided with a base stationcontrolling one or more cells, and the base station may be interpretedas two meanings. The base station may be 1) a device for providing amegacell, a macrocell, a microcell, a picocell, a femtocell, or a smallcell in connection with a wireless region, or the base station may be 2)a wireless region itself. In the above description 1), the base stationmay be the devices controlled by the same entity and providingpredetermined wireless regions or all devices interacting with eachother and cooperatively configuring a wireless region. For example, thebase station may be a point, a transmission/reception point, atransmission point, a reception point, and the like according to theconfiguration method of the wireless region. In the above description2), the base station may be the wireless region in which a userequipment (UE) may be enabled to transmit data to and receive data fromthe other UE or a neighboring base station.

In this specification, the cell may refer to coverage of a signaltransmitted from a transmission/reception point, a component carrierhaving coverage of a signal transmitted from a transmission/receptionpoint (or a transmission point), or a transmission/reception pointitself.

An uplink (UL) refers to a scheme of transmitting data from a UE to abase station, and a downlink (DL) refers to a scheme of transmittingdata from a base station to a UE. The downlink may mean communication orcommunication paths from multiple transmission/reception points to a UE,and the uplink may mean communication or communication paths from a UEto multiple transmission/reception points. In the downlink, atransmitter may be a part of the multiple transmission/reception points,and a receiver may be a part of the UE. In addition, in the uplink, thetransmitter may be a part of the UE, and the receiver may be a part ofthe multiple transmission/reception points.

The uplink and downlink transmit and receive control information througha control channel, such as a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH)and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). The uplink and downlinktransmit and receive data through a data channel such as a physicaldownlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a physical uplink shared channel(PUSCH). Hereinafter, the transmission and reception of a signal througha channel, such as PUCCH, PUSCH, PDCCH, PDSCH, or the like, may beexpressed as “PUCCH, PUSCH, PDCCH, PDSCH, or the like is transmitted andreceived”.

For the sake of clarity, the following description will focus on 3GPPLTE/LTE-A/NR (New Radio) communication systems, but technical featuresof the disclosure are not limited to the corresponding communicationsystems.

3GPP has been developing a 5G (5th-Generation) communication technologyin order to meet the requirements of a next-generation radio accesstechnology of ITU-R after studying 4G (4th-generation) communicationtechnology. Specifically, 3GPP is developing, as a 5G communicationtechnology, LTE-A pro by improving the LTE-Advanced technology so as toconform to the requirements of ITU-R and a new NR communicationtechnology that is totally different from 4G communication technology.LTE-A pro and NR all refer to the 5G communication technology.Hereinafter, the 5G communication technology will be described on thebasis of NR unless a specific communication technology is specified.

Various operating scenarios have been defined in NR in consideration ofsatellites, automobiles, new verticals, and the like in the typical 4GLTE scenarios so as to support an enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB)scenario in terms of services, a massive machine-type communication(mMTC) scenario in which UEs spread over a broad region at a high UEdensity, thereby requiring low data rates and asynchronous connections,and an ultra-reliability and low-latency (URLLC) scenario that requireshigh responsiveness and reliability and supports high-speed mobility.

In order to satisfy such scenarios, NR discloses a wirelesscommunication system employing a new waveform and frame structuretechnology, a low-latency technology, a super-high frequency band(mmWave) support technology, and a forward compatible provisiontechnology. In particular, the NR system has various technologicalchanges in terms of flexibility in order to provide forwardcompatibility. The primary technical features of NR will be describedbelow with reference to the drawings.

<Overview of NR System>

FIG. 1 is a view schematically illustrating an NR system to which thepresent embodiment is applicable.

Referring to FIG. 1, the NR system is divided into a 5G core network(5GC) and an NG-RAN part, and the NG-RAN includes gNBs and ng-eNBsproviding user plane (SDAP/PDCP/RLC/MAC/PHY) and user equipment (UE)control plane (RRC) protocol ends. The gNBs or the gNB and the ng-eNBare connected to each other through Xn interfaces. The gNB and theng-eNB are connected to the 5GC through NG interfaces, respectively. The5GC may be configured to include an access and mobility managementfunction (AMF) for managing a control plane, such as a UE connection andmobility control function, and a user plane function (UPF) controllinguser data. NR supports both frequency bands below 6 GHz (frequency range1: FR1) and frequency bands equal to or greater than 6 GHz (frequencyrange 2: FR2).

The gNB denotes a base station that provides a UE with an NR user planeand control plane protocol end, and the ng-eNB denotes a base stationthat provides a UE with an E-UTRA user plane and control plane protocolend. The base station described in the present specification should beunderstood as encompassing the gNB and the ng-eNB. However, the basestation may be also used to refer to the gNB or the ng-eNB separatelyfrom each other, as necessary.

<NR Waveform, Numerology, and Frame Structure>

NR uses a CP-OFDM waveform using a cyclic prefix for downlinktransmission and uses CP-OFDM or DFT-s-OFDM for uplink transmission.OFDM technology is easy to combine with a multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) scheme and allows a low-complexity receiver to be used with highfrequency efficiency.

Since the three scenarios described above have different requirementsfor data rates, delay rates, coverage, and the like from each other inNR, it is necessary to efficiently satisfy the requirements for eachscenario through frequency bands constituting the NR system. To thisend, a technique for efficiently multiplexing radio resources based on aplurality of different numerologies has been proposed.

Specifically, the NR transmission numerology is determined on the basisof subcarrier spacing and a cyclic prefix (CP), and, as shown in Table 1below, “μ” is used as an exponential value of 2 so as to be changedexponentially on the basis of 15 kHz.

TABLE 1 Subcarrier Supported Supported μ spacing Cyclic prefix for datafor synch 0 15 Normal Yes Yes 1 30 Normal Yes Yes 2 60 Normal, Yes NoExtended 3 120 Normal Yes Yes 4 240 Normal No Yes

As shown in Table 1 above, NR may have five types of numerologiesaccording to subcarrier spacing. This is different from LTE, which isone of the 4G-communication technologies, in which the subcarrierspacing is fixed to 15 kHz. Specifically, in NR, subcarrier spacing usedfor data transmission is 15, 30, 60, or 120 kHz, and subcarrier spacingused for synchronization signal transmission is 15, 30, 12, or 240 kHz.In addition, an extended CP is applied only to the subcarrier spacing of60 kHz. A frame that includes 10 subframes each having the same lengthof 1 ms and has a length of 10 ms is defined in the frame structure inNR. One frame may be divided into half frames of 5 ms, and each halfframe includes 5 subframes. In the case of a subcarrier spacing of 15kHz, one subframe includes one slot, and each slot includes 14 OFDMsymbols. FIG. 2 is a view for explaining a frame structure in an NRsystem to which the present embodiment may be applied.

Referring to FIG. 2, a slot includes 14 OFDM symbols, which are fixed,in the case of a normal CP, but the length of the slot in the timedomain may be varied depending on subcarrier spacing. For example, inthe case of a numerology having a subcarrier spacing of 15 kHz, the slotis configured to have the same length of 1 ms as that of the subframe.On the other hand, in the case of a numerology having a subcarrierspacing of 30 kHz, the slot includes 14 OFDM symbols, but one subframemay include two slots each having a length of 0.5 ms. That is, thesubframe and the frame may be defined using a fixed time length, and theslot may be defined as the number of symbols such that the time lengththereof is varied depending on the subcarrier spacing.

NR defines a basic unit of scheduling as a slot and also introduces aminislot (or a subslot or a non-slot-based schedule) in order to reducea transmission delay of a radio section. If wide subcarrier spacing isused, the length of one slot is shortened in inverse proportion thereto,thereby reducing a transmission delay in the radio section. A minislot(or subslot) is intended to efficiently support URLLC scenarios, and theminislot may be scheduled in 2, 4, or 7 symbol units.

In addition, unlike LTE, NR defines uplink and downlink resourceallocation as a symbol level in one slot. In order to reduce a HARQdelay, the slot structure capable of directly transmitting HARQ ACK/NACKin a transmission slot has been defined. Such a slot structure isreferred to as a “self-contained structure”, which will be described.

NR was designed to support a total of 256 slot formats, and 62 slotformats thereof are used in 3GPP Rel-15. In addition, NR supports acommon frame structure constituting an FDD or TDD frame throughcombinations of various slots. For example, NR supports i) a slotstructure in which all symbols of a slot are configured for a downlink,ii) a slot structure in which all symbols are configured for an uplink,and iii) a slot structure in which downlink symbols and uplink symbolsare mixed. In addition, NR supports data transmission that is scheduledto be distributed to one or more slots. Accordingly, the base stationmay inform the UE of whether the slot is a downlink slot, an uplinkslot, or a flexible slot using a slot format indicator (SFI). The basestation may inform a slot format by instructing, using the SFI, theindex of a table configured through UE-specific RRC signaling. Further,the base station may dynamically instruct the slot format throughdownlink control information (DCI) or may statically or quasi-staticallyinstruct the same through RRC signaling.

<Physical Resources of NR>

With regard to physical resources in NR, antenna ports, resource grids,resource elements, resource blocks, bandwidth parts, and the like aretaken into consideration.

The antenna port is defined to infer a channel carrying a symbol on anantenna port from the other channel carrying another symbol on the sameantenna port. If large-scale properties of a channel carrying a symbolon an antenna port can be inferred from the other channel carrying asymbol on another antenna port, the two antenna ports may have aquasi-co-located or quasi-co-location (QC/QCL) relationship. Thelarge-scale properties include at least one of delay spread, Dopplerspread, a frequency shift, an average received power, and a receivedtiming.

FIG. 3 is a view for explaining resource grids supported by a radioaccess technology to which the present embodiment is applicable.

Referring to FIG. 3, resource grids may exist according to respectivenumerologies because NR supports a plurality of numerologies in the samecarrier. In addition, the resource grids may exist depending on antennaports, subcarrier spacing, and transmission directions.

A resource block includes 12 subcarriers and is defined only in thefrequency domain. In addition, a resource element includes one OFDMsymbol and one subcarrier. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 3, the size ofone resource block may be varied according to the subcarrier spacing.Further, “Point A” that acts as a common reference point for theresource block grids, a common resource block, and a virtual resourceblock are defined in NR.

FIG. 4 is a view for explaining bandwidth parts supported by a radioaccess technology to which the present embodiment is applicable.

Unlike LTE in which the carrier bandwidth is fixed to 20 MHz, themaximum carrier bandwidth is configured as 50 MHz to 400 MHz dependingon the subcarrier spacing in NR. Therefore, it is not assumed that allUEs use the entire carrier bandwidth. Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 4,bandwidth parts (BWPs) may be specified within the carrier bandwidth inNR so that the UE may use the same. In addition, the bandwidth part maybe associated with one numerology, may include a subset of consecutivecommon resource blocks, and may be activated dynamically over time. TheUE has up to four bandwidth parts in each of the uplink and thedownlink, and the UE transmits and receives data using an activatedbandwidth part during a given time.

In the case of a paired spectrum, uplink and downlink bandwidth partsare configured independently. In the case of an unpaired spectrum, inorder to prevent unnecessary frequency re-tuning between a downlinkoperation and an uplink operation, the downlink bandwidth part and theuplink bandwidth part are configured in pairs so as to share a centerfrequency.

<Initial Access in NR>

In NR, a UE performs a cell search and a random access procedure inorder to access and communicates with a base station.

The cell search is a procedure of the UE for synchronizing with a cellof a corresponding base station using a synchronization signal block(SSB) transmitted from the base station and acquiring a physical-layercell ID and system information.

FIG. 5 is a view illustrating an example of a synchronization signalblock in a radio access technology to which the present embodiment isapplicable.

Referring to FIG. 5, the SSB includes a primary synchronization signal(PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), which occupy onesymbol and 127 subcarriers, and PBCHs spanning three OFDM symbols and240 subcarriers.

The UE monitors the SSB in the time and frequency domain, therebyreceiving the SSB.

The SSB may be transmitted up to 64 times for 5 ms. A plurality of SSBsare transmitted by different transmission beams within a time of 5 ms,and the UE performs detection on the assumption that the SSB istransmitted every 20 ms based on a specific beam used for transmission.The number of beams that can be used for SSB transmission within 5 msmay be increased as the frequency band is increased. For example, up to4 SSB beams may be transmitted at a frequency band of 3 GHz or less, andup to 8 SSB beams may be transmitted at a frequency band of 3 to 6 GHz.In addition, the SSBs may be transmitted using up to 64 different beamsat a frequency band of 6 GHz or more.

One slot includes two SSBs, and a start symbol and the number ofrepetitions in the slot are determined according to subcarrier spacingas follows.

Unlike the SS in the typical LTE system, the SSB is not transmitted atthe center frequency of a carrier bandwidth. That is, the SSB may alsobe transmitted at the frequency other than the center of the systemband, and a plurality of SSBs may be transmitted in the frequency domainin the case of supporting a broadband operation. Accordingly, the UEmonitors the SSB using a synchronization raster, which is a candidatefrequency position for monitoring the SSB. A carrier raster and asynchronization raster, which are the center frequency positioninformation of the channel for the initial connection, were newlydefined in NR, and the synchronization raster may support a fast SSBsearch of the UE because the frequency spacing thereof is configured tobe wider than that of the carrier raster.

The UE may acquire an MIB through the PBCH of the SSB. The MIB (masterinformation block) includes minimum information for the UE to receiveremaining minimum system information (RMSI) broadcast by the network. Inaddition, the PBCH may include information on the position of the firstDM-RS symbol in the time domain, information for the UE to monitor SIB1(e.g., SIB1 numerology information, information related to SIB1 CORESET,search space information, PDCCH-related parameter information, etc.),offset information between the common resource block and the SSB (theposition of an absolute SSB in the carrier is transmitted via SIB1), andthe like. The SIB1 numerology information is also applied to somemessages used in the random access procedure for the UE to access thebase station after completing the cell search procedure. For example,the numerology information of SIB1 may be applied to at least one of themessages 1 to 4 for the random access procedure.

The above-mentioned RMSI may mean SIB1 (system information block 1), andSIB1 is broadcast periodically (e.g., 160 ms) in the cell. SIB1 includesinformation necessary for the UE to perform the initial random accessprocedure, and SIB1 is periodically transmitted through a PDSCH. Inorder to receive SIB1, the UE must receive numerology information usedfor the SIB1 transmission and the CORESET (control resource set)information used for scheduling of SIB1 through a PBCH. The UEidentifies scheduling information for SIB1 using SI-RNTI in the CORESET,and acquires SIB1 on the PDSCH according to scheduling information. Theremaining SIBs other than SIB1 may be periodically transmitted, or theremaining SIBs may be transmitted according to the request of the UE.

FIG. 6 is a view for explaining a random access procedure in a radioaccess technology to which the present embodiment is applicable.

Referring to FIG. 6, if a cell search is completed, the UE transmits arandom access preamble for random access to the base station. The randomaccess preamble is transmitted through a PRACH. Specifically, the randomaccess preamble is periodically transmitted to the base station throughthe PRACH that includes consecutive radio resources in a specific slotrepeated. In general, a contention-based random access procedure isperformed when the UE makes initial access to a cell, and anon-contention-based random access procedure is performed when the UEperforms random access for beam failure recovery (BFR).

The UE receives a random access response to the transmitted randomaccess preamble. The random access response may include a random accesspreamble identifier (ID), UL Grant (uplink radio resource), a temporaryC-RNTI (temporary cell-radio network temporary identifier), and a TAC(time alignment command). Since one random access response may includerandom access response information for one or more UEs, the randomaccess preamble identifier may be included in order to indicate the UEfor which the included UL Grant, temporary C-RNTI, and TAC are valid.The random access preamble identifier may be an identifier of the randomaccess preamble received by the base station. The TAC may be included asinformation for the UE to adjust uplink synchronization. The randomaccess response may be indicated by a random access identifier on thePDCCH, i.e., a random access-radio network temporary identifier(RA-RNTI).

Upon receiving a valid random access response, the UE processesinformation included in the random access response and performsscheduled transmission to the base station. For example, the UE appliesthe TAC and stores the temporary C-RNTI. In addition, the UE transmits,to the base station, data stored in the buffer of the UE or newlygenerated data using the UL Grant. In this case, information foridentifying the UE must be included in the data.

Lastly, the UE receives a downlink message to resolve the contention.

<NR CORESET>

The downlink control channel in NR is transmitted in a CORESET (controlresource set) having a length of 1 to 3 symbols, and the downlinkcontrol channel transmits uplink/downlink scheduling information, an SFI(slot format index), TPC (transmit power control) information, and thelike.

As described above, NR has introduced the concept of CORESET in order tosecure the flexibility of a system. The CORESET (control resource set)refers to a time-frequency resource for a downlink control signal. TheUE may decode a control channel candidate using one or more searchspaces in the CORESET time-frequency resource. CORESET-specific QCL(quasi-colocation) assumption is configured and is used for the purposeof providing information on the characteristics of analogue beamdirections, as well as delay spread, Doppler spread, Doppler shift, andan average delay, which are the characteristics assumed by existing QCL.

FIG. 7 is a view for explaining CORESETs.

Referring to FIG. 7, CORESETs may exist in various forms within acarrier bandwidth in a single slot, and the CORESET may include amaximum of 3 OFDM symbols in the time domain. In addition, the CORESETis defined as a multiple of six resource blocks up to the carrierbandwidth in the frequency domain.

A first CORESET, as a portion of the initial bandwidth part, isdesignated (e.g., instructed, assigned) through an MIB in order toreceive additional configuration information and system information froma network. After establishing a connection with the base station, the UEmay receive and configure one or more pieces of CORESET informationthrough RRC signaling.

In this specification, a frequency, a frame, a subframe, a resource, aresource block, a region, a band, a subband, a control channel, a datachannel, a synchronization signal, various reference signals, varioussignals, or various messages in relation to NR (New Radio) may beinterpreted as meanings used at present or in the past or as variousmeanings to be used in the future.

<5G NR(New Radio)>

Recently, the 3GPP has approved the “Study on New Radio AccessTechnology”, which is a study item for research on next-generation/5Gradio access technology. On the basis of the Study on New Radio AccessTechnology, discussions have been in progress for frame structures,channel coding and modulation, waveforms, multiple access methods, andthe like for the new radio (NR). The NR is required to be designed notonly to provide an improved data transmission rate as compared with theLTE/LTE-Advanced, but also to meet various requirements per detailed andspecific usage scenario.

An enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine-type communication(mMTC), and ultra-reliable and low latency communication (URLLC) areproposed as representative usage scenarios of the NR. In order to meetthe requirements per usage scenario, it is required for designing the NRto have flexible frame structures, compared with the LTE/LTE-Advanced.

Since each usage scenario imposes different requirements for data rates,latency, coverage, etc., there arises a need for a method of efficientlymultiplexing numerology-based (e.g., a subcarrier spacing (SCS), asubframe, a transmission time interval (TTI), etc.) radio resource unitsdifferent from each other, as a solution for efficiently satisfyingrequirements according to usage scenarios through a frequency bandprovided to an NR system.

To this end, there have been discussions on i) methods of multiplexingnumerologies having subcarrier spacing (SCS) values different from oneanother based on TDM, FDM or TDM/FDM through one NR carrier, and ii)methods of supporting one or more time units in configuring a schedulingunit in the time domain. In this regard, in the NR, a definition of asubframe has been given as one type of a time domain structure. Inaddition, as a reference numerology to define a corresponding subframeduration, a single subframe duration is defined as having 14 OFDMsymbols of normal CP overhead based on 15 kHz subcarrier spacing (SCS),like the LTE. Therefore, the subframe of the NR has the time duration of1 ms.

Unlike the LTE, since the subframe of the NR is an absolute referencetime duration, a slot and a mini-slot may be defined as a time unit foractual UL/DL data scheduling. In this case, the number of OFDM symbolswhich constitutes a slot, a value of y, has been defined as y=14regardless of the numerology.

Therefore, a slot may be made up of 14 symbols. In accordance with atransmission direction for a corresponding slot, all symbols may be usedfor DL transmission or UL transmission, or the symbols may be used inthe configuration of a DL portion+a gap+a UL portion.

Further, a mini-slot has been defined to be made up of fewer symbolsthan the slot in a numerology (or SCS), and as a result, a short timedomain scheduling interval may be configured for UL/DL data transmissionor reception based on the mini-slot. Also, a long time domain schedulinginterval may be configured for the UL/DL data transmission or receptionby slot aggregation.

Particularly, in the case of the transmission or reception of latencycritical data, such as the URLLC, when scheduling is performed on a slotbasis based on 1 ms (14 symbols) defined in a frame structure based on anumerology having a small SCS value, for example, 15 kHz, latencyrequirements may be difficult to be satisfied. To this end, a mini-slotmade up of fewer OFDM symbols than the slot may be defined, and thus thescheduling for the latency critical data, such as the URLLC, may beperformed based on the mini-slot.

As described above, it is also contemplated to schedule the dataaccording to the latency requirement based on the length of the slot (orminislot) defined by the numerology by supporting the numerology withthe different SCS values in one NR carrier by multiplexing them in theTDM and/or FDM manner. For example, as shown in FIG. 8, when the SCS is60 kHz, the symbol length is reduced to about ¼ of that of the SCS 15kHz. Therefore, when one slot is made up of 14 OFDM symbols, the slotlength based on 15 kHz is 1 ms whereas the slot length based on 60 kHzis reduced to about 0.25 ms.

Thus, since different SCSs or different TTI lengths from one another aredefined in the NR, technologies have been developed for satisfyingrequirements of each of the URLLC and the eMBB.

<PDCCH>

In the NR and the LTE/LTE-A systems, the physical layer (L1) controlinformation such as the downlink assignment DCI (DL assignment DownlinkControl Information) and the uplink grant (UL grant) are transmitted andreceived through the PDCCH. A control channel element (CCE) is definedas a resource unit for the PDCCH transmission, and a control resourceset (CORESET) as a frequency/time resource for the PDCCH transmissionmay be configured for each UE in the NR system. Also, each CORESET maybe made up of one or more search spaces made up of one or more PDCCHcandidates for the UE to monitor the PDCCH. The detailed description ofthe PDCCH in NR in 3GPP TS 38.211 and TS 38.213 is omitted for the sakeof convenience, but it may be included in this disclosure.

<Wider Bandwidth Operations>

The typical LTE system supports scalable bandwidth operations for anyLTC CC (component carrier). That is, according to a frequency deploymentscenario, an LTE provider may configure a bandwidth of a minimum of 1.4MHz to a maximum of 20 MHz in configuring a single LTE CC, and a normalLTE UE supports a transmission/reception capability of a bandwidth of 20MHz for a single LTE CC.

However, the NR is designed to be able to support the UE of NR havingdifferent transmission/reception bandwidth capabilities through a singlewideband NR CC. Accordingly, it is required to configure one or morebandwidth parts (BWPs) including subdivided bandwidths for an NR CC asshown FIG. 9, thereby supporting a flexible and wider bandwidthoperation through configuration and activation of different bandwidthparts for respective UEs.

Specifically, one or more bandwidth parts may be configured through asingle serving cell configured in terms of a UE in NR, and the UE isdefined to activate one downlink (DL) bandwidth part and one uplink (UL)bandwidth part so as to use the same for uplink/downlink datatransmission/reception in the corresponding serving cell. In addition,in the case where a plurality of serving cells is configured in the UE(i.e., the UE to which CA is applied), the UE is also defined toactivate one downlink bandwidth part and/or one uplink bandwidth part ineach serving cell so as to use the same for uplink/downlink datatransmission/reception by utilizing radio resources of the correspondingserving cell.

Specifically, an initial bandwidth part for an initial access procedureof a UE may be defined in an serving cell; one or more UE-specificbandwidth parts may be configured for each UE through dedicated RRCsignaling, and a default bandwidth part for a fallback operation may bedefined for each UE.

It is possible to make a definition such that a plurality of downlinkand/or uplink bandwidth parts are simultaneously activated and usedaccording to the capability of the UE and the configuration of thebandwidth parts in an serving cell. However, definition was made in NRrel-15 such that only one downlink (DL) bandwidth part and one uplink(UL) bandwidth part are activated and used in an UE at an time.

<NR-U>

Unlike licensed bands, unlicensed bands can be used by any provider orperson to provide wireless communication services within the regulationsof respective countries, instead of being exclusively used by a specificprovider. Accordingly, in order to provide NR services using theunlicensed bands, it is required to solve problems caused byco-existence with various short-range wireless communication protocols,such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, or the like, which is provided throughunlicensed bands and problems caused by co-existence of NR providers andLTE providers.

Therefore, in order to avoid interference or collision between therespective wireless communication services when providing NR servicesthrough the unlicensed band, it is necessary to support an LBT (listenbefore talk)-based wireless channel access scheme in which a power levelof a wireless channel or a carrier to be used is sensed beforetransmitting a radio signal, thereby determining whether or not thewireless channel or the carrier is available. In this case, if aspecific wireless channel or carrier of the unlicensed band is in use byanother wireless communication protocol or another provider, the NRservices through the corresponding band will be limited, so that the QoSrequested by the user may not be guaranteed in the wirelesscommunication services through the unlicensed band, compared to thewireless communication services through the licensed band.

In particular, unlike typical LTE that supports an unlicensed spectrumonly through carrier aggregation (CA) with a licensed spectrum, NR-U isbased on deployment scenarios in the unlicensed band NR, such as astand-alone NR-U cell or a dual-connectivity-based NR-U cell with an NRcell or an LTE cell in the licensed band. Thus, it is necessary todesign a data transmission/reception method in order to satisfy aminimum QoS in the unlicensed band.

To this end, the present disclosure proposes a method and a device fortransmitting and receiving the downlink and the uplink control channelsof the UE and the base station in the NR-U cell.

Hereinafter, a method and a device for transmitting and receiving thedownlink and the uplink control channels of the UE and the base stationin the NR-U cell will be described with reference to the relateddrawings.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of a user equipment forperforming wireless communication using information on the LBT failureregion in an unlicensed band according to one embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 10, the UE may receive information for allocatingradio resources in a system band composed of a plurality of subbands atS1000.

For example, it is assumed that the system band in the unlicensed bandis made up of the plurality of subbands corresponding to the LBTperformance unit of 20 MHz. For example, it may be assumed a band of 100MHz including five subbands. At least one of the plurality of subbandsmay be configured as a bandwidth part (BWP) of the UE.

The base station may allocate the radio resource to be used fortransmitting the downlink signal or channel to the UE for its bandwidthpart. The UE may receive allocation information for a resource block(RB) in the frequency domain and allocation information for atransmission start symbol and a duration in the time domain from thebase station. As an example, the information for allocating the radioresource may be indicated through downlink control information (DCI).

Referring back to FIG. 10, the UE may receive information on a LBT(listen before talk) failure region among the radio resource at S1010.

As an example, the base station may transmit the information on the LBTfailure region to the UE on transmission of the downlink signal or thedownlink channel. That is, the information on a region prohibiting thedownlink signal or the downlink signal channel from being transmitteddue to an LBT failure among allocated regions may be explicitlyinstructed along with transmission of the downlink signal or thedownlink channel.

Since the subband segment is determined at the time of cell banddetermination, the number and the type of subbands associated with oneUE are determined at the time of configuring the BWP for the UE. Atleast one of the plurality of subbands that is made up of the systemband may be associated with the BWP of the UE. In the downlink, the basestation may perform the LBT on at least one subband associated with theBWP of the UE before starting transmission to the UE.

For example, the information about the LBT failure region may beprovided through the downlink control information (DCI). The informationon the LBT failure region may include information indicating whether theLBT succeeds for at least one subband associated with the BWP of the UE,that is, each of the subbands included in the radio resource allocatedto the UE among the plurality of subbands.

In this case, the success or the failure of the LBT for each subband maybe transmitted in a bitmap manner or a bitmap form by assigning a fieldvalue to the downlink control information. Also, if multiple startpoints are supported, information on a start point for startingtransmission in the LBT failed subband may also be transmitted throughthe downlink control information (DCI).

For example, the DCI including the information on the LBT failure regionmay be the DCI carrying the original data transmission region andmethod. In this case, the corresponding DCI may include the informationindicating whether the LBT succeeds for the subband together withscheduling information on downlink transmission.

Alternatively, the DCI including the information on the LBT failureregion may be defined with a new DCI format to convey the informationabout the LBT failure region. In this case, the corresponding DCI maynot include the scheduling information for the downlink transmission,and the corresponding DCI may include the information LBTsuccess/failure for the subband. In this case, the length of thecorresponding message may be fixed to the number of subbands associatedwith the BWP allocated to each UE, fixed to the number of associatedsubbands throughout the carrier band, or fixed to a specific value.

According to one example, the subbands and bits in the bitmap may bemapped on a one-to-one basis. Also, if the number of bits is greaterthan the number of subbands, the remaining bits may be aligned to lengthor to location, followed by padding to the remaining bits, or by fillingin the significant bits repeatedly. Also, if the number of bits is lessthan the number of subbands, two or more subbands may be mapped to onebit. In this case, the number of subbands corresponding to one bit maybe all configured to the same value or may be configured differentlyaccording to the number of bits and the number of subbands.

For example, if the number of bits is 5 and the number of subbands is 8,the first 3 bits may be mapped to two subbands, and the remaining 2 bitsmay be mapped to one subband. In this manner, when a plurality ofsubbands are instructed together, an LBT failure for only one subbandmay be determined to be an LBT failure for the entire subbands. Also, anLBT failure for all subbands may be determined to be an LBT failure forthe entire subbands. Alternatively, an LBT failure for more than apredetermined ratio among the plurality of subbands may be determined tobe an LBT failure for the entire subbands.

The corresponding DCI may be transmitted each time the downlink signalor the downlink channel is transmitted, or the corresponding DCI may betransmitted only when there is a failed subband for the LBT. Inaddition, the DCI may be scrambled with an RNTI associated with aspecific UE and configured to receive only the specific UE.Alternatively, the DCI may be scrambled with an RNTI associated with aplurality of UEs and configured to receive all UEs that may access thecorresponding CORESET (Control Resource Set). That is, the base stationmay transmit the DCI including the information on the LBT failure regionthrough the UE-group common physical downlink control channel (PDCCH).

For example, a new DCI format 2-1u similar to the DCI format 2-1 definedfor the existing pre-emption indication may be defined. In this case,like the pre-emption indication field, the information field for the LBTfailure region for the subband may be included in the payload andscrambled by the INT-RNTI (Interrupted transmission indication RNTI) inthe same manner as the DCI format 2-1.

Alternatively, a new RNTI may be defined for use in the DCI, which doesnot use the INT-RNTI and contains information about the LBT failureregion for the subband. For example, the newly defined RNTI may bereferred to as an occupied subband indication RNTI (OSI-RNTI) or thelike. However, this is not limited to the name as an example, and thenewly defined RNTI may be referred to as another name.

The newly defined occupied subband indication RNTI may be preallocatedto UE-groups using an unlicensed band made up of the plurality ofsubbands. The CRC bits of the DCI including the information on the LBTfailure region for the subband may be scrambled with the occupiedsubband indication RNTI and transmitted through the PDCCH. Each UE inthe UE-group receives the DCI through the corresponding PDCCH and maycheck the CRC of the DCI using the occupied subband indication RNTI.Accordingly, as described above, all UEs capable of accessing thecorresponding CORESET may receive the information on the LBT failureregion. In this case, the used PDCCH may be defined as a group commonPDCCH (GC-PDCCH).

Referring back to FIG. 10, the UE monitors the downlink signal in otherregions, except the LBT failure region, in the radio resource at S1020,and receives the downlink signal in the region at 51030.

The UE may monitor the downlink signal based on the allocationinformation on the radio resource and the information on the LBT failureregion. That is, the UE may identify the remaining subband, except thesubband in which the LBT fails, among the plurality of subbands made upof the radio resources allocated to reception of the downlink signal andthe like. The UE may receive the downlink signal or the like from thebase station through the remaining subbands.

For example, if multiple start points are supported in the unlicensedband, the base station may again perform the LBT for the LBT failedsubbands during the transmission of the downlink signal. If the LBT issuccessful for a LBT failed subband, the base station may transmitinformation on whether to fail or succeed the LBT and the transmissionstart point for the corresponding subband through the DCI to the UE.Accordingly, after the transmission start point, the UE may monitor thesubband in which the LBT succeeded during the downlink transmission andreceive the downlink signal.

The UE according to embodiments of the present disclosure mayefficiently perform the wireless communication in an unlicensed bandwhen resource allocation is performed over the plurality of the subbandsin the unlicensed band and a part of the subbands of an allocatedresource is in an unavailable state or not available. The UE accordingto embodiments of the present disclosure may receive the information onthe LBT failure region, which is a subband in an unavailable state whenthe resource allocation is performed over the plurality of the subbandsin the unlicensed band.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of a base station forperforming wireless communication using information on an LBT failureregion in an unlicensed band according to the other embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 11, the base station performs the LBT for each ofsubbands in the system bandwidth made up of the plurality of thesubbands at S1100.

As an example, it is assumed that the system band in the unlicensed bandis made up of the plurality of subbands corresponding to the LBTperformance unit of 20 MHz. For example, it may be assumed a band of 100MHz including five subbands. At least one of the plurality of subbandsmay be configured as a bandwidth part (BWP) of the UE.

In order to transmit the radio signal through the unlicensed band, thebase station may perform the LBT procedure or the LBT to confirm whetheror not the corresponding radio channel is occupied by another node. Thatis, the base station may perform the LBT procedure for at least onesubband configured with the BWP of the UE in order to transmit thedownlink signal or the downlink channel to the UE in the unlicensedband. As a result of performing the LBT procedure, if the subband of thecorresponding unlicensed band is not occupied, the base station maytransmit the PDCCH and the corresponding PDSCH using the subband to theUE.

Referring back to FIG. 11, the base station may transmit the informationfor allocating the radio resources in the system band made up of theplurality of subbands at S1110.

The base station may allocate the radio resource to be used fortransmitting the downlink signal or channel to the UE for its bandwidthpart. The base station may transmit the allocation information for theresource block (RB) in the frequency domain and the allocationinformation for the transmission start symbol and the duration in thetime domain to the UE. For example, the information for allocating theradio resource may be provided (e.g., instructed, transmitted,delivered, informed) through downlink control information (DCI).

Referring back to FIG. 11, the base station may transmit the informationon the LBT failure region among the radio resource at S1120.

For example, the base station may transmit the information on the LBTfailure region to the UE on transmission of the downlink signal or thedownlink channel. That is, the information on a region restrictingtransmission of the downlink signal or the downlink signal channel dueto an LBT failure among allocated regions may be explicitly instructedalong with transmission of the downlink signal or the downlink channel.

For example, the information about the LBT failure region may beinstructed (e.g., provided, transmitted, delivered) through the downlinkcontrol information (DCI). The information on the LBT failure region mayinclude the information indicating whether the LBT succeeds for at leastone subband associated with the BWP of the UE, that is, each of thesubbands included in the radio resource allocated to the UE among theplurality of subbands.

In this case, the success or the failure of the LBT for each subband maybe transmitted in a bitmap manner or a bitmap form by assigning a fieldvalue to the downlink control information. Also, if multiple startpoints are supported, the information on a start point for startingtransmission for the LBT failed subband may also be transmitted throughthe downlink control information (DCI).

As one example, the DCI including the information on the LBT failureregion may be the DCI carrying the original data transmission region andmethod. In this case, the corresponding DCI may include the informationindicating whether the LBT succeeds for the subband together withscheduling information on downlink transmission.

Alternatively, the DCI including the information on the LBT failureregion may be defined with a new DCI format to convey the informationabout the LBT failure region. In this case, the corresponding DCI maynot include the scheduling information for the downlink transmission,and the corresponding DCI may include the information LBTsuccess/failure for the subband. In this case, the length of thecorresponding message may be fixed to the number of subbands associatedwith the BWP allocated to each UE, fixed to the number of associatedsubbands throughout the carrier band, or fixed to a specific value.

For example, the subbands and the bits in the bitmap may be mapped on aone-to-one basis. Also, if the number of bits is greater than the numberof the subbands, the remaining bits may be aligned to length orlocation, followed by padding to the remaining bits, or by filling inthe significant bits repeatedly. Also, if the number of the bits is lessthan the number of the subbands, two or more the subbands may be mappedto one bit. In this case, the number of the subbands corresponding toone bit may be all configured to the same value or may be configureddifferently according to the number of the bits and the number of thesubbands.

For example, if the number of the bits is 5 and the number of thesubbands is 8, the first 3 bits may be mapped to two subbands, and theremaining 2 bits may be mapped to one subband. In this manner, when aplurality of the subbands are indicated together, an LBT failure foronly one subband may be determined to be an LBT failure for the entiresubbands. Also, an LBT failure for all subbands may be determined to bethe LBT failure for the entire subbands. Alternatively, the LBT failurefor more than a predetermined ratio among the plurality of the subbandsmay be determined to be the LBT failure for the entire subbands.

The corresponding DCI may be transmitted each time when the downlinksignal or the downlink channel is transmitted, or the corresponding DCImay be transmitted only when there is a failed subband for the LBT. Inaddition, the DCI may be scrambled with an RNTI associated with aspecific UE and configured to receive only the specific UE.Alternatively, the DCI may be scrambled with an RNTI associated with aplurality of UEs and configured to receive all UEs that may access thecorresponding CORESET (Control Resource Set). That is, the base stationmay transmit the DCI including the information on the LBT failure regionthrough the UE-group common physical downlink control channel (PDCCH).

According to one example, a new DCI format 2-1u similar to the DCIformat 2-1 defined for the typical pre-emption indication may bedefined. In this case, like the pre-emption indication field, theinformation field for the LBT failure region for the subband may beincluded in the payload and scrambled by the INT-RNTI (Interruptedtransmission indication RNTI) in the same manner as the DCI format 2-1.

Alternatively, a new RNTI may be defined for use in the DCI, which doesnot use the INT-RNTI and contains information about the LBT failureregion for the subband. For example, the newly defined RNTI may bereferred to as an occupied subband indication RNTI (OSI-RNTI) or thelike. However, this is not limited to the name as an example, and thenewly defined RNTI may be referred to as another name.

The newly defined occupied subband indication RNTI may be preallocatedto UE-groups using an unlicensed band composed of the plurality ofsubbands. The CRC bits of the DCI including the information on the LBTfailure region for the subband may be scrambled with the occupiedsubband indication RNTI and transmitted through the PDCCH. Each UE inthe UE-group receives the DCI through the corresponding PDCCH and maycheck the CRC of the DCI using the occupied subband indication RNTI.Accordingly, as described above, all UEs capable of accessing thecorresponding CORESET may receive the information on the LBT failureregion. In this case, the used PDCCH may be defined as a group commonPDCCH (GC-PDCCH).

Referring back to FIG. 11, the base station transmits the downlinksignal in other regions, except the LBT failure region, in the radioresource at S1020, and receives the downlink signal in the region at51130.

The base station may transmit the downlink signal based on theallocation information on the radio resource and the information on theLBT failure region. That is, the base station may identify the remainingsubband except the subband in which the LBT fails, among the pluralityof subbands composed of the radio resources allocated to reception ofthe downlink signal and the like. The base station may transmit thedownlink signal or the like to the UE through the remaining subbands.

For example, if multiple start points are supported in the unlicensedband, the base station may again perform the LBT for the subbands inwhich the LBT failed during the transmission of the downlink signal. Ifthe LBT is successful for a subband in which the LBT fails, the basestation may transmit information on the LBT success and the transmissionstart point for the corresponding subband through the DCI to the UE.Accordingly, after the transmission start point, the UE may monitor thesubband in which the LBT succeeded during the downlink transmission andreceive the downlink signal.

The base station according to embodiments of the present disclosure mayefficiently perform the wireless communication in an unlicensed bandwhen resource allocation is performed over the plurality of the subbandsin the unlicensed band and a part of the subbands of an allocatedresource is in an unavailable state or not available. The base stationaccording to embodiments of the present disclosure may transmit theinformation on the LBT failure region, which is a subband in anunavailable state when the resource allocation is performed over theplurality of the subbands in the unlicensed band.

Hereinafter, each embodiment for performing the wireless communicationin consideration of the LBT failure region in an unlicensed band in theNR will be described with reference to related drawings in detail.

In order to transmit the radio signal through the unlicensed band, thebase station may perform the LBT procedure or the LBT to confirm whetheror not the corresponding radio channel is occupied by another node.

As a result of performing the LBT procedure, if the subband of thecorresponding unlicensed band is not occupied, the base station maytransmit the PDCCH and the corresponding PDSCH using the subband to theUE.

Similarly, in order to transmit an uplink signal in the unlicensed band,the UE needs to perform the LBT for the unlicensed band beforetransmitting the uplink signal.

FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining an LBT for wireless communication inthe unlicensed band according to an exemplary embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

For example, it may be defined that a base station instructs a UE toperform LBT at the time of PUCCH transmission resource allocation orPUSCH transmission resource allocation, or at the corresponding PUCCHtransmission or PUSCH transmission for the UE. The UE may transmit UCI(Uplink Control Information) such as HARQ ACK/NACK feedback informationor CQI/CSI reporting information to the base station through the PUCCHor the PUSCH.

In this regard, in the NR, time resources and frequency resources, whichare PUCCH resources for transmitting the HARQ feedback, may beinstructed by the base station through the uplink assignment DCI or theuplink grant DCI. Alternatively, the PUCCH resource for transmitting theHARQ feedback may be semi-statically configured via RRC signaling. Inparticular, in the case of time resources, a value of K1, which is atiming gap value between the PDSCH reception slot and the correspondingHARQ feedback information transmission slot, may be transmitted to theUE through the DL assignment DCI or the RRC signaling.

The PUCCH resource for the CQI/CSI reporting may also be allocated tothe UE through the DL assignment DCI or the RRC signaling.

Referring to FIG. 12, dashed lines show that the downlink transmissionis performed through the unlicensed band at the later point when thedownlink LBT (DL LBT) for the downlink transmission is successful in thebase station. For example, the downlink transmission may be transmissionof a downlink channel or transmission of a downlink signal indicatingthe uplink transmission. In FIG. 12, the downlink transmission isdenoted by DL, and the uplink transmission is denoted by UL.

For example, the downlink transmission DL and the uplink transmission ULmay correspond to i) PDSCH transmission and PUCCH transmission for theHARQ feedback thereto, ii) DCI for requesting the CQI/CSI reporting andPUCCH for the reporting thereof, or iii) DCI for transmitting uplinkscheduling information for PUSCH and PUSCH transmission therefor. Inthis case, the timing gap K1 occurs between the downlink transmission DLand the uplink transmission UL.

For example, when the downlink signal or the downlink channel accordingto downlink transmission indicates the PUCCH transmission in an NR-Ucell of the unlicensed band, the UE basically performs the LBT for thePUCCH transmission preferentially according to the regulation of theunlicensed spectrum and determines whether to transmit the PUCCH at thepoint indicated according to the result of the LBT. If the correspondingradio channel is occupied by another node as the result of the LBT, thatis, if an LBT failure occurs, the corresponding UE may not be able toperform the PUCCH transmission at the indicated time.

However, if a channel occupancy time (COT) of the base station includesthe DL assignment DCI transmission slot including the PUCCH resourceallocation information and the PUCCH transmission indication informationor the PDSCH transmission slots according to the corresponding DLassignment DCI, and the PUCCH transmission slot thereto, the PUCCHtransmission may be performed in the corresponding UE without performingthe LBT. It is because that the unlicensed band is already occupied forthe downlink transmission to the UE by the base station, and notoccupied by another node. That is, according to the configuration of theCOT and the value of the K1 of the base station, the HARQ feedbacktransmission over the PUCCH is possible without LBT at the correspondingUE.

Similarly, it may be assumed that a timing gap value between i) a slotto which the DL assignment DCI is transmitted and ii) slots in which thePUCCH including the CQI/CSI reporting information is transmitted is M.When the CSI/CQI reporting via the PUCCH is indicated through the DLassignment DCI, the CQI/CSI reporting over the PUCCH is possible withoutLBT at the corresponding UE according to the configuration of the COTand the value of the M of the base station.

Similar to the case of the PUCCH, it may be assumed that a timing gapvalue between i) a slot to which the UL grant DCI is transmitted and ii)slots in which the PUSCH is transmitted is K2. The value of the time gapK2 may be semi-statically configured via RRC signaling or dynamicallyconfigured via the UL grant DCI by the base station. Also in this case,when the channel occupancy time (COT) of the base station includes theUL grant DCI transmission slot including the PUSCH resource allocationinformation and the PUSCH transmission slot thereto, the PUSCHtransmission may be performed in the corresponding UE without performingthe LBT.

In this regard, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, abase station may configure an LBT scheme for performing the LBT whentransmitting the PUCCH or the PUSHC at an UE, and the base station mayinstruct it to the UE. For example, the LBT scheme may be divided into aplurality of schemes according to at least one of whether to perform theLBT, whether to perform a random back off procedure, and a randombackoff time. In this disclosure, the method of performing the LBT isreferred to as an ‘LBT scheme’, but is not limited thereto. The LBTscheme for performing the LBT may be variously referred to as the LBTcategory, but the disclosure is not limited thereto.

For example, the LBT scheme may include a first LBT scheme that does notperform the LBT, a second LBT scheme that performs the LBT but does notperform the random back off procedure, a third LBT scheme in which theLBT and the random back off procedure is performed but the off-timeinterval is fixed, and a fourth LBT scheme in which the LBT and therandom back off procedure is performed but the off-time interval isvariable.

For example, the base station may directly instruct the UE whether toperform the LBT for the uplink transmission through physical layer (L1)control signaling. Specifically, the LBT indication information forinstructing whether to perform the LBT for the uplink transmission ofthe UE may be defined to be included within the DL assignment DCI formatfor transmitting the PDSCH scheduling control information.

For example, the LBT indication information may be 1-bit indicationinformation bit. In this case, it is possible to define whether or notto perform the LBT at the corresponding UE according to the bit value(0, 1) of the LBT indication information when the UE corresponding tothe DL assignment DCI format transmits the PUCCH. In this case, the bitvalue of the LBT indication information may mean to distinguish thefirst LBT scheme from the remaining LBT schemes among the LBT schemesdescribed above.

As another example, the LBT indication information may be 2-bitindication information. In this case, it is possible to define whetheror not to perform the LBT at the corresponding UE according to the bitvalue (00, 01, 10, and 11) of the LBT indication information when the UEcorresponding to the DL assignment DCI format transmits the PUCCH. Inthis case, the bit value of the LBT indication information may mean toidentify the first LBT scheme to the fourth LBT scheme among the LBTschemes described above.

In this case, the PUCCH transmission of the UE corresponding to theabove described DL assignment DCI format may be the PUCCH transmissionfor the HARQ feedback information transmission of the UE according tothe PDSCH reception of the UE based on the corresponding DL assignmentDCI format. The PUCCH transmission of the UE corresponding to the DLassignment DCI format may be the PUCCH transmission for the CQI/CSIreporting when the CQI/CSI reporting is triggered by the correspondingDL assignment DCI format.

The LBT indication information may be defined to be included within theUL grant DCI format for transmitting the PUSCH scheduling controlinformation.

For example, the LBT indication information may be 1-bit indicationinformation bit. In this case, it is possible to define whether or notto perform the LBT at the corresponding UE according to the bit value(0, 1) of the LBT indication information when the UE corresponding tothe UL grant DCI format transmits the PUCCH. In this case, the bit valueof the LBT indication information may mean to distinguish the first LBTscheme from the remaining LBT schemes among the LBT schemes describedabove.

As another example, the LBT indication information may be 2-bitindication information. In this case, it is possible to define whetheror not to perform the LBT at the corresponding UE according to the bitvalue (00, 01, 10, and 11) of the LBT indication information when the UEcorresponding to the UL grant DCI format transmits the PUCCH. In thiscase, the bit value of the LBT indication information may mean toidentify the first LBT scheme to the fourth LBT scheme among the LBTschemes described above.

In this case, the PUCCH transmission of the UE corresponding to theabove described UL grant DCI format may be the PUCCH transmission forthe uplink data transmission or the UCI transmission.

According to another embodiment, it will be defined that whether toperform the LBT scheme for the uplink transmission in the UE or the typeof LBT scheme may be determined based on the timing gap value betweenthe downlink transmission indicating the uplink transmission and thecorresponding uplink transmission as shown in FIG. 12.

For example, if the timing gap value is smaller than an threshold value,it is possible to define that the indicated PUCCH or PUSCH may betransmitted without LBT at the corresponding UE. Alternatively, if thetiming gap value is greater than the corresponding threshold, it ispossible to define that the corresponding PUCCH or PUSCH may betransmitted after the LBT is performed at the corresponding UE.

For example, the threshold may be determined by the COT value in thecorresponding NR-U, or the threshold may be configured based on eithercell-specific RRC signaling, UE-specific RRC signaling according to theCOT by the base station, or the cell-specific RRC signaling or theUE-specific RRC signaling regardless of the COT by the base station.

In addition, the threshold may be defined as a single threshold for eachuplink transmission case, or the threshold may be defined as a thresholddifferent from each other and then configured through the specific RRCsignaling or the UE-specific RRC signaling.

According to the above procedure, it is possible to determine the LBTscheme to be performed in order to transmit the uplink signal in theunlicensed band and to transmit the uplink signal in the unlicensed bandaccording to the determined LBT scheme.

The present disclosure provides a transmission allocation and controlmethod in a 3GPP NR system in which channel availability is independentof the transmitter/receiver's intention. In particular, the presentdisclosure provides a method for transmitting a large capacity packet inthe NR-based access to unlicensed spectrum (NR-U) system environmentusing a common channel as a transmission space.

In the typical 3GPP LTE, the license-assisted access (LAA) system wasproposed as one method of using a unlicensed band. The LAA systemoperates a control channel through a license band and operates a datachannel through the unlicensed band. In addition, studies are underwayto introduce the NR-U system to transmit and receive the data or thecontrol information in the unlicensed band, as a new feature.

As described above, in the case of the unlicensed band, it is checkedwhether there is another device occupying a channel band to betransmitted through a LBT procedure. Then, the wireless communicationmay be started only when it is empty. In this case, since it isinefficient to perform the LBT procedure on all frequency components,the occupancy of the corresponding band is generally investigated in aunit of 20 MHz, and the wireless communications are performed within thecorresponding band.

In the case of the downlink, if a channel is not empty, a transmittingbase station should not perform resource allocation. On the other hand,in uplink environment, the transmitting UE may be unable to performuplink transmission to an allocated resource region according to LBTfailure of resource allocated by the receiving base station. It isgenerally assumed that reception is failed in the base station in thecase where such a transmission failure occurs, and the retransmission isperformed. In this case, there are proposed the detailed method that ablock is not included in a soft combine during decoding a receivedblock.

However, for the NR system, scenarios using a band larger than 20 MHz asan LBT unit are considered. Accordingly, there are discussions fordeveloping operation methods in the band of 20 MHz or more in the NR-U.In this case, there are a plurality of LBT intervals divided into 20 MHzunits, and each of the plurality of LBT intervals may be divided intosubbands within one band.

As described above, since the LAA applied to 3GPP LTE has the samechannel bandwidth and LBT unit, it is only necessary to determinewhether the entire channel can be used. However, there are the pluralityof LBT intervals such as the plurality of subbands in the case of theband larger than 20 MHz as in the NR system, and availability of eachinterval may vary. Even if the LBT fails in some regions, that is, evenif the channel is not available in some regions, the UE may secure theband to be used for transmission/reception in which the LBT is stillsuccessful. However, when the LBT fails in some regions, a method ofusing the remaining band succeeding in the LBT for thetransmission/reception has not yet been introduced.

In this regard, it is mainly discussed a method of allocating theuplink/downlink scheduling resource for each subband. This method mayperform the NR transmission and reception in the unit of 20 MHz andmerge it in a higher layer similar to the CA (carrier aggregation). Thismethod is similar to the multiple scheduling method because ofperforming the resource allocation to the plurality of subbands withonly one control channel. However, since this method requires onetransmission block to operate unconditionally within the unit of 20 MHz,there may be a significant restriction in large-capacity transmission,especially in environments using high numerology.

In the following, the present disclosure provides an efficienttransmission method in a case where the resource allocation is performedover the plurality of subbands in the NR-U environment and some subbandsof the allocated resources are in an unavailable state. Particularly,the present disclosure relates to a method and a system for identifyinga transmission failure caused by noise or the like and a transmissionfailure caused by the LBT failure at a receiving side or a receiver anddelivering the related information to the receiver in order to obtainhigher decoding performance by providing accurate reliability ofinformation at a later decoding time. In addition, the presentdisclosure provides a method of configuring a transport blockconsidering the LBT failure region, on the assumption that transmittingthe related information to the LBT failure region is transmitted.

The present disclosure provides a method of transmitting the LBT failureregion in the corresponding transmission, a method of transmitting theLBT failure region in retransmission, and a method of configuring thetransmission block in accordance with the LBT failure region. The termsused in this disclosure may be replaced by other terms havingsubstantially the same meaning in the following description, and thescope of the present disclosure is not limited by the terms used.

FIG. 13 is a diagram for explaining a sub-band of a unlicensed bandaccording to an embodiment. FIG. 14 is a view for explaining atransmission region in a case where multiple start points are supportedin a unlicensed band according to the embodiment. FIGS. 15 and 16 arediagrams for explaining a DCI format including information on an LBTfailure region according to the embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 13, it is assumed that the system band is made up ofthe plurality of subbands, which is the LBT performance unit. Forexample, it is assumed that the system band may a band of 100 MHz madeup of five subbands. It is assumed that the corresponding band is madeup of c resource blocks (RBs) represented by numbers from 1 to c, and aband represented by numbers from a to b is made up of a bandwidth part(BWP) of the UE. Further, it is assumed that the numbers of RBs (e.g.,each subband) is s, t, u, v from the bottom, respectively. In this case,it is assumed that there is a relationship of 1<s≤a<t<u<b≤v<c as shownin FIG. 13. In FIG. 13, each of the values of s and a, b and v may bedifferent from each other, but it is not limited thereto. Each of thevalues of s and a, b and v are equal to each other.

As shown FIG. 13, one slot may have a length of 7 and a time lengthdefined as one slot is used as a scheduling unit in the NR. When theresource is allocated, a specific start point and a length are indicatedby a control message. For example, in FIG. 13, when all one slot isused, the start point=1 and the length=7 are indicated by the controlmessage. In this case, a pair of available start points and lengths maybe predefined to reduce the size of the control message. In addition, itis possible to support more various starting points and lengths inconsideration of the case where there is enabled the use of thecorresponding band from the middle depending on the success of the LBTin the unlicensed band.

The configuration of the system band, the subband and the BWP for the UEshown in FIG. 13 are examples for convenience of explanation, but it isnot limited thereto. For example, the number of RBs or the number ofsubbands in the system band, the number of constituent RBs, or the BWPof the UE may be configured differently depending on the case.

For example, in the present disclosure, it is assumed that each scenariois supported to a predetermined start point and length, as well as adifferent start point and length from that of other block allocatedtogether.

For example, referring to FIG. 14, the radio resource allocated to theUE is indicated by the DCI. The DCI may indicate the start symbol in thetime domain and the resource blocks (RBs) in the frequency domain as thetransmission domain. It is assumed that the LBT fails for the subbandmade up of 4 RBs in the middle of the frequency domain. In this case, ifthe LBT succeeds from the 5th symbol for the corresponding subband, the5th symbol for the corresponding subband may be transmitted to the UE asthe starting point of the downlink transmission.

Hereinafter, specific embodiments according to the present disclosurewill be described based on the transmission region and the contentsdescribed in reference with FIG. 14.

According to the first embodiment, the information on the LBT failureregion may be transmitted from the transmitting side when the signal istransmitted. In this case, a transmitting side may explicitly orimplicitly transmit the information on a region that may not betransmitted due to the LBT failure among the allocated regionssimultaneously with the transmission of the signal. Hereinafter, thedownlink and uplink environments will be described separately, and themethods will be described again in terms of explicitly or implicitlytransmitting the information on the LBT failure region. The methods maybe mutually independent and may optionally be applied as needed.

For example, the information on the LBT failure region may be explicitlyindicated in the case of downlink transmission. Since the subbandsegment is determined at cell band determination, the number and type ofsubbands associated with one UE are determined at the time of theconfiguration of the BWP. For example, three subbands (subbands 2through 4) are associated with the BWP of the UE as shown FIG. 13. Inthe downlink, the base station may perform the LBT for the threesubbands before starting transmission to the corresponding UE. In thiscase, the success or the failure of the LBT for each subband may betransmitted in the bit map manner by assigning a field value to thedownlink control information (DCI). Also, if multiple start points aresupported, the starting point to be transmitted for the subband forwhich the LBT failed may also be transmitted.

In this case, the DCI including the information on the LBT failureregion may be the DCI carrying the initial data transmission region andmethod. In this case, referring to FIG. 15, the corresponding DCI mayinclude the LBT success/failure information for the subbands togetherwith the scheduling information for the downlink transmission. However,the present disclosure is not limited thereto, and the location or thename of the field including the LBT success/failure information for thesubband may be defined differently.

Alternatively, the DCI including information about the LBT failureregion may be another DCI of a new format transmitted at a locationassociated with the data transmission location. In this case, referringto FIG. 16, the corresponding DCI may include the LBT success/failureinformation on the subbands without the scheduling information for thedownlink transmission. However, the present disclosure is not limited tothis, and the location or the name of the field including the LBTsuccess/failure information for the subband may be defined differently.

The transmission of information on the LBT success/failure informationfor each subband may be performed as follows. For example, a new DCIformat including the subband-based LBT success/failure information maybe defined. In this case, the length of the corresponding message may befixed to the number of subbands associated with the BWP allocated toeach UE, fixed to the number of associated subbands throughout thecarrier band, or fixed to a specific value.

Accordingly, the mapping between the subbands and the bits in the bitmapmay be a one-to-one mapping between them. Also, if the number of bits isgreater than the number of the subbands, the remaining bits may bealigned to length or location, followed by padding to the remainingbits, or by filling in the significant bits repeatedly. Also, if thenumber of the bits is less than the number of the subbands, two or morethe subbands may be grouped and mapped. In this case, the number of thesubbands corresponding to one bit may be all configured to the samevalue or may be configured differently according to the number of thebits and the number of the subbands.

As mentioned above, if the number of the bits is 5 and the number of thesubbands is 8, the first 3 bits may be mapped to two subbands, and theremaining 2 bits may be mapped to one subband. In this manner, when aplurality of the subbands are indicated together, an LBT failure foronly one subband may be determined to be an LBT failure for the entiresubbands. Also, an LBT failure for all subbands may be determined to bethe LBT failure for the entire subbands. Alternatively, the LBT failurefor more than a predetermined ratio among the plurality of the subbandsmay be determined to be the LBT failure for the entire subbands.

The corresponding DCI may be transmitted each time the downlink signalor the downlink channel is transmitted, or the corresponding DCI may betransmitted only when there is a failed subband for the LBT. Inaddition, the DCI may be scrambled with an RNTI associated with aspecific UE and configured to receive only the specific UE.Alternatively, the DCI may be scrambled with an RNTI associated with aplurality of UEs and configured to receive all UEs that may access thecorresponding CORESET (Control Resource Set).

As mentioned above, a new DCI format 2-1u similar to the DCI format 2-1defined for the typtical pre-emption indication may be defined. In thiscase, like the pre-emption indication field, the information field forthe LBT failure region for the subband may be included in the payloadand scrambled by the INT-RNTI (Interrupted transmission indication RNTI)in the same manner as the DCI format 2-1.

Alternatively, a new RNTI may be defined for use in the DCI, which doesnot use the INT-RNTI and contains information about the LBT failureregion for the subband. For example, the newly defined RNTI may bereferred to as an occupied subband indication RNTI (OSI-RNTI) or thelike.

The newly defined occupied subband indication RNTI may be preallocatedto UE-groups using an unlicensed band composed of the plurality ofsubbands. The CRC bits of the DCI including the information on the LBTfailure region for the subband may be scrambled with the occupiedsubband indication RNTI and transmitted through the PDCCH. Each UE inthe UE-group receives the DCI through the corresponding PDCCH and maycheck the CRC of the DCI using the occupied subband indication RNTI.Accordingly, as described above, all UEs capable of accessing thecorresponding CORESET may receive the information on the LBT failureregion. In this case, the used PDCCH may be defined as a group commonPDCCH (GC-PDCCH).

As another example, the information on the LBT failure region may beimplicitly indicated in the case of the downlink transmission. Forexample, a reference signal such as a DMRS may be used to indicate anLBT failed subband without changing the typical DCI format. To this end,either the typical DMRS or the CSI-RS may be utilized, or a newreference signal may be defined for indicating the LBT failed subband.

When the reference signal is used, the detected value of the referencesignal in a specific subband is less than a predetermined thresholdvalue in the receiving side. In this case, a receiving side maydetermine that the transmission is not performed even if thecorresponding subband is allocated by the DCI. Alternatively, thereference signal of the transmission region may be changed for higherdetection reliability. For example, the reference signal carried in asucceeding subband after a failed subband in the LBT may include thenumber of previously failed subbands as a parameter.

For example, it is assumed that the reference signals A to J aretransmitted to the subbands 1 to 10 in order. When the LBT fails in thesubbands 3, 4, 5 and 9 among the subbands 1 to 10, the reference signalsA and B are assigned to subbands 1 and 2 as they are, and the referencesignal C is transmitted to the subbands 6. The reference signals D and Emay be assigned to the subbands 7 and 8, or the reference signals G or Hmay be assigned to subbands 7 and 8. The reference signals F or I may beassigned to the subband 10. Since the reference signal C instead of thereference signal F is transmitted to the subband 6, the receiving sidemay determine that the LBT failure for the subbands 3, 4, and 5 hasoccurred.

Also, when the temporal position of the reference signal such as thefront-loaded DMRS may refer to the start point of the transmissionregion, the position of the reference signal may be determined as thetransmission start point. Therefore, the temporal position in which anew transmission is started in a subband in which the LBT has failed maybe transmitted using the reference signal such as the front-loaded DMRS.This implies that the information about the LBT failure region isindicated explicitly and at the same time implicitly, so that the blinddetection of the reference signal may be performed only for the LBTfailure region, thereby reducing the complexity.

As another example, the information on the LBT failure region may beexplicitly indicated in the case of the uplink transmission. Forexample, as in the case of the downlink transmission described above,the information on the LBT failure region may be transmitted in a bitmap form using a field in the uplink control information (UCI)transmitted through the PUSCH. Since the UCI in the PUSCH is piggybackedin the transport block, no information may be acquired if the transportblock is not decoded. In general, if there is an unexpected shortage oftransmission space, there is a high probability that the transmissionblock itself will not be properly decoded.

Therefore, even if an LBT failure occurs in the vicinity of the uplinktransmission block, a PUCCH resource of a type to be decodedsufficiently is configured at a predetermined position, so that theinformation on whether to fail the LBT and the new transmission startpoint may be transmitted through the PUCCH. For example, the last OFDMsymbol among the uplink transmission resources may be configured as aPUCCH space for transmitting the information on whether to fail the LBTin the bitmap manner, and the information on whether to fail the LBT maybe transmitted through the PUCCH space. At this time, each PUCCH isrepeatedly transmitted for each subband, so that the success of the LBTfor the entire subband may be known even if only the PUCCH in onesubband is received at the receiving side.

As another example, the information on the LBT failure region may beimplicitly indicated in the case of the uplink transmission. In thiscase, as in the downlink transmission, the uplink DMRS or otherpredetermined reference signal may be used to implicitly transmit theinformation on the subband failing the LBT.

According to the second embodiment, the transmitting side may transmitthe information on the LBT failure region upon retransmission.

In this case, a transmitting side may be able to transmit theinformation on a region that may not be transmitted due to the LBTfailure among the allocated regions at the time of the retransmission.Similar to the first embodiment, this case may also be considered ineach of the downlink and the uplink. At the time of retransmission, ifthe additional start point is supported, the corresponding informationtogether with the information on the LBT failure region may also betransmitted.

For example, in the case of downlink transmission, the informationrelated to the LBT failure region may be transmitted in various formsbecause there is no DCI-related time constraint during retransmission.Accordingly, all the methods proposed in the downlink transmission ofthe first embodiment may be also used. In this case, the difference fromthe first embodiment is that the transmission time of the information isthe retransmission time instead of the transmission time. In addition itmay be transmitted by the scheme to indicate the flushing of theassociated block with code block group flushing out information (CBGFI)or the like after configuring a code block group (CBG) in a formataligned with the subbands in the same manner as in the case ofpre-emption.

As another example, in the case of the uplink transmission, the relatedinformation may be included in the UCI of the PUSCH at the time ofretransmission in addition to the method of the first embodiment. Inparticular, there may be transmitted the information such as multiplestart points by the UCI or the like.

According to the third embodiment, the transport block may be configuredaccording to the LBT failure area.

Basically, not a base station but an external regulation may configure arange of a subband. A subcarrier unit supported by the NR is not adivisor of 20 MHz. Therefore, the number of RBs involved in one subbandrange is not always constant and does not coincide with the start andthe end ranges of the frame. In addition, when the subband correspondingto the LBT failure is being used by another node, the transmitting sideshould perform the transmission considering the guard band of theadjacent subband.

For example, if the subband 3 is being used in FIG. 13, the UE mayallocate only the region of the transmission from a to t-g and from u+gto b for a predetermined specific value g. In this case, the specificvalue g may vary according to the subcarrier unit used or the referencefrequency range, and is generally specified in the related specificationand collectively transmitted to the UE through the cell-specific RRCsignaling. In any case, at the time of performing the transmission, thebase station and the UE may accurately recognize the range of the RBwhich should not be used or not used when the LBT of the specificsubband fails, and interpret the LBT failure information.

At this time, the configuration of the guard band may be a unit of RB ora unit of RE (resource element) in the RB. This environment may also bestandardized or may be determined by the base station according to theconfiguration of the BWP. In particular, when the bandwidth loss islarge due to the configuration of the RB unit guard band such as theconfiguration of a high subcarrier unit, the configuration of the guardband may be determined in RE units.

In a case where the configuration of the guard band may be a unit of RBor a unit of RE (resource element) in the RB, the boundary determined asa result of the LBT may not coincide with the scheduling unit. It mayhappen that the scheduling may not be performed accurately according tothe range to be transmitted due to the LBT failure. In particular, thisconstraint may have a large effect on a wide bandwidth in which the sizeP of the RB group (RBG) becomes large. In the NR, the size P of up to 16or more may be configured, and if an existing scheduling unit ismaintained in an RA type-0 environment that performs bitmap operationsin units of P, it is possible that more than 15 RBs may not bescheduled. For example, in the case of RA type-1 that supports thescheduling in units of 1 RB expressed in successive units, for example,when the LBT fails in the subband 3 within the BWP in FIG. 13. It mayhappen that the entire band above or below the subband 3 should beabandoned in order to schedule the remaining band according to the RAtype-1.

If it is possible to transmit the information on whether the LBT failsin advance, the following process may be introduced to solve thisproblem. For example, the scheduling may be freely performed in theprevious manner without excluding a range where the transmission is notperformed due to the LBT failure in the scheduling area. For example,even if the LBT of the subband 3 fails in the above example, the basestation may still may schedule all of the ranges from a to b. At thesame time, if the information on the LBT failure is simultaneouslytransmitted, the UE is able to recognize that the transmission region isnot from a to b but from a to t-g, and from u+g to b, and it may bedetermined that resources are allocated only to the corresponding RB.Therefore, the transmitting side may generate the transmission blockaccording to the range, except the LBT failure range, in advance.

However, since the LBT and the restriction of the transmission range dueto the LBT failure is immediately performed, the processing time such asthe calculation of the actual transmission range based on the result,the transmission block size, the determination of the MCS and the likemay not be sufficiently secured. Therefore, the transmission blockgeneration itself may be performed in advance and the signal to betransmitted in the LBT failure region may be punctured and transmitted.The two transmission methods described above may be selectively appliedin the same situation. There is a need for a method of indicating inadvance which method was selected, or delivering it after the selection.

Hereinafter, it is assumed that the LBT succeeds in the subbands 2 and 4and the LBT fails in the subband 3 as shown in FIG. 13.

For example, the transmission block may be generated according to therange excluding the LBT failure range in the downlink environment. ThePDSCH may be composed of RBs of size (t−g−a+1)+(b−u−g+1) considering theguard band, except for the subband 3 in which the LBT fails in the BWPconfigured in the UE. Accordingly, the transport block is generatedaccording to the size of the transmission region, and the generatedtransport block is mapped to RB resources from a to t−g and from u+g tob, which are transmission resources except for a frequency region thatcannot be transmitted due to the LBT failure. The transmitting side mayschedule the transmission resource in a range including the entireregion to be actually transmitted and transmit information on whether tofail the LBT in the specific subband. At the receiving side, thetransmission regions from a to t-g and from u+g to b may be extracted tothe RB range in which the actual transmission has been performed, andthe decoding is performed in the RB range.

As another example, the LBT failure region may be punctured andtransmitted in the downlink environment. The PDSCH is made up of b-a+1RB, which is the original BWP size, and the transport block may begenerated according to the size of the transmission region. In thiscase, a value corresponding to the resource of the LBT failed subband ispunctured and mapped to the transmission resource. The transmitting sidemay schedule the entire area, and the result of performing the subbandLBT may be transmitted. The receiving side may receive the RBs from a tob, decides that the received value in the range from t−g to b+g isworthless, ignores it and perform decoding.

On the other hand, it is also possible to introduce an start position tostart the transmission from the middle even if the LBT fails. In thiscase, as shown in FIG. 14, in the LBT failure band, resources after thepoint in time when the availability is secured and the transmission maybe started may not be punctured. In decoding, the receiving side mayrefer to the information transmitted to the corresponding regionimplicitly or later on the basis of the information on the startposition.

As another example, the transport block may be generated according tothe range excluding an LBT failure range in the uplink environment. Thedescription in the downlink environment described above may basically beapplied also in the uplink environment. However, in the case of theuplink environment, if the scheduling region itself cannot be controlledand the information on whether to fail the LBT cannot be transmittedbefore the decoding of the transport block such as the UCI in the PUSCH,the uplink environment is different from the downlink environment inthat the base station as the receiving side may blindly detect whetherto fail the LBT at first, and the complexity increases as the number ofthe involved subbands increases. Therefore, as described above in thefirst embodiment, it is possible to reduce the complexity of the basestation by separately transmitting the information on the LBT failurethrough the DMRS or the PUCCH.

As another example, an LBT failure region may be punctured andtransmitted in the uplink environment. Also in this case, thedescription in the downlink environment described above may basically beapplied in the uplink environment. The base station may receive theinformation on the LBT failure when the initial decoding fails andincrease the decoding performance or request retransmission only for therequired portion. At this time, an additional operation indicatingretransmission may be defined so that retransmission can be performedwith the same value as the existing transmission value.

As another example, whether or not to perform the pre-creation orpuncturing of the transport block may be indicated or delivered. As inthe above example, whether to perform the transmission in either thepre-generation or the puncturing may be determined in advance by the RRCsignaling according to the performance of the base station and the UE,or may be transmitted to the DCI according to the necessity at the timeof transmission.

Although the above description has been basically based on the NR-Utransmission, the above description may be applied to all environmentswhere channel availability is applied due to external factors. Also,although the first and second embodiments may be appliedinterdependently, each of the methods may be independent of each otherand one or more than two may be applied separately as needed.

Through the method provided in this disclosure, broadband high-speedtransmission may be performed in a channel environment in which somechannels cannot be intermittently used by external factors such as theNR-U. In addition, the receiving side may acquire supplementaryinformation that can increase the reception success rate in the samechannel environment through the method provided in the presentdisclosure. In order to efficiently support the reception and thedecoding process based on the reception information, the transport blockmay be reconstructed according to the channel situation.

According to these embodiments, when the resource allocation isperformed over a plurality of subbands in the unlicensed band, thewireless communication may be efficiently performed when a part ofsubbands of the resource is in an unavailable state. In addition, bytransmitting information on the LBT failure range, which is anon-available subband, the wireless communication may be efficientlyperformed even when some of the subbands of the resource are in anunavailable state.

Hereinafter, structures of a UE and a base station capable of performingsome or all of the embodiments described in connection with FIG. 1 toFIG. 16 will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating a user equipment 1700 according to anembodiment.

Referring to FIG. 17, a user equipment (UE) 1700 includes a controller1710, a transmitter 1720 and a receiver 1730.

The controller 1710 controls the overall operations of the userequipment 1700 according to a method of the UE for performing thewireless communication in the unlicensed band. The transmitter 1720transmits uplink control information, data, and messages to the basestation through corresponding channels. The receiver 1730 receives, froma base station, downlink control information, data, and messages throughcorresponding channels.

For example, the receiver 1730 may receive system information onallocating a radio resource in a system bandwidth made up of a pluralityof subbands. The base station may allocate the radio resource to be usedfor transmitting the downlink signal or channel to the user equipment1700 for its bandwidth part. The receiver 1730 may receive allocationinformation for a resource block (RB) in the frequency domain andallocation information for a transmission start symbol and a duration inthe time domain from the base station. As an example, the informationfor allocating the radio resource may be indicated through downlinkcontrol information (DCI).

The receiver 1730 may receive information on a LBT (Listen Before Talk)failure region among the radio resource. For example, the base stationmay transmit the information on the LBT failure region to the UE ontransmission of the downlink signal or the downlink channel. That is,the information on a region where the downlink signal or the downlinksignal channel cannot be transmitted due to an LBT failure amongallocated regions may be explicitly indicated along with transmission ofthe downlink signal or the downlink channel.

At least one of the plurality of subbands that is made up of the systemband may be associated with the BWP of the UE. In the downlink, the basestation may perform the LBT on at least one subband associated with theBWP of the UE before starting transmission to the UE.

For example, the information about the LBT failure region may beindicated through the downlink control information (DCI). Theinformation on the LBT failure region may include information indicatingwhether the LBT succeeds for at least one subband associated with theBWP of the UE, that is, each of the subbands included in the radioresource allocated to the UE among the plurality of subbands.

In this case, the success or the failure of the LBT for each subband maybe transmitted in a bitmap manner or a bitmap form by assigning a fieldvalue to the downlink control information. Also, if multiple startpoints are supported, information on the start point to be transmittedfor the subband for which the LBT failed may also be transmitted throughthe downlink control information (DCI).

For example, the DCI including the information on the LBT failure regionmay be the DCI carrying the original data transmission region andmethod. In this case, the corresponding DCI may include the informationindicating whether the LBT succeeds for the subband together withscheduling information on downlink transmission.

Alternatively, the DCI including the information on the LBT failureregion may be defined with a new DCI format to convey the informationabout the LBT failure region. In this case, the corresponding DCI maynot include the scheduling information for the downlink transmission,and the corresponding DCI may include the information LBTsuccess/failure for the subband. In this case, the length of thecorresponding message may be fixed to the number of subbands associatedwith the BWP allocated to each UE, fixed to the number of associatedsubbands throughout the carrier band, or fixed to a specific value.

According to one example, the subbands and bits in the bitmap may bemapped on a one-to-one basis. Also, if the number of bits is greaterthan the number of subbands, the remaining bits may be aligned to lengthor to location, followed by padding to the remaining bits, or by fillingin the significant bits repeatedly. Also, if the number of bits is lessthan the number of subbands, two or more subbands may be mapped to onebit. In this case, the number of subbands corresponding to one bit maybe all configured to the same value or may be configured differentlyaccording to the number of bits and the number of subbands.

The corresponding DCI may be transmitted each time the downlink signalor the downlink channel is transmitted, or may be transmitted only whenthere is a failed subband for the LBT. In addition, the DCI may bescrambled with an RNTI associated with a specific UE and configured toreceive only the specific UE. Alternatively, the DCI may be scrambledwith an RNTI associated with a plurality of UEs and configured toreceive all UEs that may access the corresponding CORESET (ControlResource Set). That is, the base station may transmit the DCI includingthe information on the LBT failure region through the UE-group commonphysical downlink control channel (PDCCH).

The receiver 1730 may receive the downlink signal in other regions,except the LBT failure region, in the radio resource based on thereceived information on the LBT failure region.

The controller 1710 may monitor the downlink signal in other regionsexcept the LBT failure region, in the radio resource, and control thereceiver to receive the downlink signal in the region.

The controller may monitor the downlink signal based on the allocationinformation on the radio resource and the information on the LBT failureregion. That is, the controller 1710 may identify the remaining subbandexcept the subband in which the LBT fails, among the plurality ofsubbands composed of the radio resources allocated to reception of thedownlink signal and the like. The receiver 1730 may receive the downlinksignal or the like from the base station through the remaining subbands.

As an example, if multiple start points are supported in the unlicensedband, the base station may again perform the LBT for the subbands inwhich the LBT failed during the transmission of the downlink signal. Ifthe LBT is successful for a subband in which the LBT fails, the receiver1730 may receive the information on whether to fail or succeed the LBTand the transmission start point for the corresponding subband throughthe DCI. Accordingly, after the transmission start point, the whether tofail or succeed the LBT may monitor the subband in which the LBTsucceeded during the downlink transmission and receive the downlinksignal.

The user equipment 1700 according to an embodiment may efficientlyperform the wireless communication in an unlicensed band when resourceallocation is performed over the plurality of the subbands in theunlicensed band and a part of the subbands of an allocated resource isin an unavailable state or not available. The user equipment 1700according to an embodiment may receive the information on the LBTfailure region, which is a subband in an unavailable state when theresource allocation is performed over the plurality of the subbands inthe unlicensed band.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing a base station 1800 according to anembodiment.

Referring to FIG. 18, a base station 1800 includes a control unit 1810,a transmitter 1820, and a receiver 1830.

The controller 1810 controls the overall operations of the base station1800 according to a method of the base station for performing thewireless communication in the unlicensed band. The transmitter 1820 andthe receiver 1830 are used to transmit and receive signals, messages, ordata necessary for carrying out the above-described disclosure to andfrom a UE.

The controller 1810 may perform a LBT (Listen Before Talk) for each ofsubbands in a system bandwidth composed of a plurality of the subbands.As an example, it is assumed that the system band in the unlicensed bandis composed of the plurality of subbands corresponding to the LBTperformance unit of 20 MHz. For example, it may be assumed a band of 100MHz composing of five subbands. At least one of the plurality ofsubbands may be configured as a bandwidth part (BWP) of the userequipment.

In order to transmit the radio signal through the unlicensed band, thecontroller 1810 may perform the LBT procedure or the LBT to confirmwhether or not the corresponding radio channel is occupied by anothernode. That is, the controller 1810 may perform the LBT procedure for atleast one subband configured with the BWP of the UE in order to transmitthe downlink signal or the downlink channel to the UE in the unlicensedband. As a result of performing the LBT procedure, if the subband of thecorresponding unlicensed band is not occupied, the controller 1810 maytransmit the PDCCH and the corresponding PDSCH using the subband to theUE through the transmitter 1820.

The transmitter 1820 may transmitting information on allocating a radioresource in the system bandwidth and information on a LBT (Listen BeforeTalk) failure region among the radio resource and transmit a downlinksignal in other regions, except the LBT failure region, in the radioresource.

The controller 1810 may allocate the radio resource to be used fortransmitting the downlink signal or channel to the UE for its bandwidthpart. The transmitter 1820 may transmit the allocation information forthe resource block (RB) in the frequency domain and the allocationinformation for the transmission start symbol and the duration in thetime domain to the UE. For example, the information for allocating theradio resource may be indicated through downlink control information(DCI).

For example, the transmitter 1820 may transmit the information on theLBT failure region to the UE on transmission of the downlink signal orthe downlink channel. That is, the transmitter 1820 may explicitlyindicate the information on a region where the downlink signal or thedownlink signal channel cannot be transmitted due to an LBT failureamong allocated regions, along with transmission of the downlink signalor the downlink channel.

For example, the information about the LBT failure region may beindicated through the downlink control information (DCI). Theinformation on the LBT failure region may include the informationindicating whether the LBT succeeds for at least one subband associatedwith the BWP of the UE, that is, each of the subbands included in theradio resource allocated to the UE among the plurality of subbands.

In this case, the success or the failure of the LBT for each subband maybe transmitted in a bitmap manner or a bitmap form by assigning a fieldvalue to the downlink control information. Also, if multiple startpoints are supported, the information on the start point to betransmitted for the subband for which the LBT failed may also betransmitted through the downlink control information (DCI).

As one example, the DCI including the information on the LBT failureregion may be the DCI carrying the original data transmission region andmethod. In this case, the corresponding DCI may include the informationindicating whether the LBT succeeds for the subband together withscheduling information on downlink transmission.

Alternatively, the DCI including the information on the LBT failureregion may be defined with a new DCI format to convey the informationabout the LBT failure region. In this case, the corresponding DCI maynot include the scheduling information for the downlink transmission,and the corresponding DCI may include the information LBTsuccess/failure for the subband. In this case, the length of thecorresponding message may be fixed to the number of subbands associatedwith the BWP allocated to each UE, fixed to the number of associatedsubbands throughout the carrier band, or fixed to a specific value.

For example, the subbands and the bits in the bitmap may be mapped on aone-to-one basis. Also, if the number of bits is greater than the numberof the subbands, the remaining bits may be aligned to length orlocation, followed by padding to the remaining bits, or by filling inthe significant bits repeatedly. Also, if the number of the bits is lessthan the number of the subbands, two or more the subbands may be mappedto one bit. In this case, the number of the subbands corresponding toone bit may be all configured to the same value or may be configureddifferently according to the number of the bits and the number of thesubbands.

The corresponding DCI may be transmitted each time when the downlinksignal or the downlink channel is transmitted, or the corresponding DCImay be transmitted only when there is a failed subband for the LBT. Inaddition, the DCI may be scrambled with an RNTI associated with aspecific UE and configured to receive only the specific UE.

Alternatively, the DCI may be scrambled with an RNTI associated with aplurality of UEs and configured to receive all UEs that may access thecorresponding CORESET (Control Resource Set). Alternatively, a new RNTImay be defined for use in the DCI, which does not use the INT-RNTI andcontains information about the LBT failure region for the subband. Forexample, the newly defined RNTI may be referred to as an occupiedsubband indication RNTI (OSI-RNTI) or the like.

The newly defined occupied subband indication RNTI may be preallocatedto UE-groups using an unlicensed band composed of the plurality ofsubbands. The CRC bits of the DCI including the information on the LBTfailure region for the subband may be scrambled with the occupiedsubband indication RNTI and transmitted through the PDCCH. Each UE inthe UE-group receives the DCI through the corresponding PDCCH and maycheck the CRC of the DCI using the occupied subband indication RNTI.Accordingly, as described above, all UEs capable of accessing thecorresponding CORESET may receive the information on the LBT failureregion. In this case, the used PDCCH may be defined as a group commonPDCCH (GC-PDCCH).

The transmitter 1820 may transmit the downlink signal and the like basedon the allocation information on the radio resource and the informationon the LBT failure region. That is, the controller 1810 may identify theremaining subband, except the subband in which the LBT fails, among theplurality of subbands composed of the radio resources allocated toreception of the downlink signal and the like. The base station maytransmit the downlink signal or the like to the UE through the remainingsubbands.

For example, if multiple start points are supported in the unlicensedband, the controller 1810 may again perform the LBT for the subbands inwhich the LBT failed during the transmission of the downlink signal. Ifthe LBT is successful for a subband in which the LBT fails, thecontroller 1810 may transmit information on the LBT success and thetransmission start point for the corresponding subband through the DCIto the UE. Accordingly, after the transmission start point, the UE maymonitor the subband in which the LBT succeeded during the downlinktransmission and receive the downlink signal.

The base station 1800 according to embodiments of the present disclosuremay efficiently perform the wireless communication in an unlicensed bandwhen resource allocation is performed over the plurality of the subbandsin the unlicensed band and a part of the subbands of an allocatedresource is in an unavailable state or not available. The base station1810 according to embodiments of the present disclosure may transmit theinformation on the LBT failure region, which is a subband in anunavailable state when the resource allocation is performed over theplurality of the subbands in the unlicensed band.

The embodiments described above may be supported by the standarddocuments disclosed in at least one of the radio access systems such asIEEE 802, 3GPP, and 3GPP2. That is, the steps, configurations, andparts, which have not been described in the present embodiments, may besupported by the above-mentioned standard documents for clarifying thetechnical concept of the disclosure. In addition, all terms disclosedherein may be described by the standard documents set forth above.

The above-described embodiments may be implemented by any of variousmeans. For example, the present embodiments may be implemented ashardware, firmware, software, or a combination thereof.

In the case of implementation by hardware, the method according to thepresent embodiments may be implemented as at least one of an applicationspecific integrated circuit (ASIC), a digital signal processor (DSP), adigital signal processing device (DSPD), a programmable logic device(PLD), a field programmable gate array (FPGA), a processor, acontroller, a microcontroller, or a microprocessor.

In the case of implementation by firmware or software, the methodaccording to the present embodiments may be implemented in the form ofan apparatus, a procedure, or a function for performing the functions oroperations described above. Software code may be stored in a memoryunit, and may be driven by the processor. The memory unit may beprovided inside or outside the processor, and may exchange data with theprocessor by any of various well-known means.

In addition, the terms “system”, “processor”, “controller”, “component”,“module”, “interface”, “model”, “unit”, and the like may generally meancomputer-related entity hardware, a combination of hardware andsoftware, software, or running software. For example, theabove-described components may be, but are not limited to, a processdriven by a processor, a processor, a controller, a control processor,an entity, an execution thread, a program and/or a computer. Forexample, both the application that is running in a controller or aprocessor and the controller or the processor may be components. One ormore components may be provided in a process and/or an execution thread,and the components may be provided in a single device (e.g., a system, acomputing device, etc.), or may be distributed over two or more devices.

The above embodiments of the present disclosure have been described onlyfor illustrative purposes, and those skilled in the art will appreciatethat various modifications and changes may be made thereto withoutdeparting from the scope and spirit of the disclosure. Further, theembodiments of the disclosure are not intended to limit, but areintended to illustrate the technical idea of the disclosure, andtherefore the scope of the technical idea of the disclosure is notlimited by these embodiments. The scope of the present disclosure shallbe construed on the basis of the accompanying claims in such a mannerthat all of the technical ideas included within the scope equivalent tothe claims belong to the present disclosure.

What is claimed is:
 1. An operation method of a user equipment (UE)using an unlicensed band, the method comprising: receiving, from a basestation, configuration information about a plurality of subbands in theunlicensed band; and receiving, from the base station, downlink controlinformation (DCI) including a bitmap, wherein each bit in the bitmapindicates an availability or unavailability for a reception in acorresponding subband, wherein based on the bitmap indicating at leastone subband as available for the reception, the UE is able to receive adownlink signal from the base station, wherein before receiving thedownlink signal, a listen before talk (LBT) is performed by the basestation, and wherein based on that all subbands in the bitmap aredetermined as unavailable for the reception, the UE does not receive achannel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), and wherein the DCIis scrambled with a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) commonlyapplied to a plurality of UEs which access a same control resource set(CORESET) and received through a UE-group common physical downlinkcontrol channel (PDCCH).
 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein theDCI further includes information indicating whether LBT succeeds foreach of subbands.
 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein eachsubband includes a plurality of resource blocks (RBs).
 4. An operationmethod of a base station using an unlicensed band, the methodcomprising: transmitting, a user equipment (UE), a configurationinformation about a plurality of subbands in the unlicensed band; andperforming a LBT (Listen Before Talk) before transmitting a downlinksignal; and transmitting, to the UE, downlink control information (DCI)including a bitmap, wherein each bit in the bitmap indicates anavailability or unavailability in a corresponding subband, wherein basedon the bitmap indicating at least one subband as available, the UE isable to receive the downlink signal from the base station, wherein basedon that all subbands in the bitmap are determined as unavailable for thereception, the UE does not receive a channel state information referencesignal (CSI-RS), and wherein the DCI is scrambled with a Radio NetworkTemporary Identifier (RNTI) commonly applied to a plurality of UEs whichaccess a same control resource set (CORESET) and transmitted throughUE-group common physical downlink control channel (PDCCH).
 5. The methodaccording to claim 4, wherein the DCI further includes informationindicating whether LBT succeeds for each of subbands.
 6. The methodaccording to claim 4, wherein each subband includes a plurality ofresource blocks (RBs).
 7. A user equipment (UE) using an unlicensedband, the UE comprising: a receiver configured to: receive, from a basestation, configuration information about a plurality of subbands in theunlicensed band, and receive, from the base station, downlink controlinformation (DCI) including a bitmap; and a controller configured tocontrol an operation of the receiver, wherein each bit in the bitmapindicates an availability or unavailability for a reception in acorresponding subband, wherein based on the bitmap indicating at leastone subband as available for the reception, the UE is able to receive adownlink signal from the base station, wherein before receiving thedownlink signal, a listen before talk (LBT) is performed by the basestation, and wherein based on that all subbands in the bitmap aredetermined as unavailable for the reception, the UE does not receive achannel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), and wherein the DCIis scrambled with a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) commonlyapplied to a plurality of UEs which access a same control resource set(CORESET) and received through UE-group common physical downlink controlchannel (PDCCH).
 8. The user equipment (UE) according to claim 7,wherein the DCI further includes information indicating whether LBTsucceeds for each of subbands.
 9. The user equipment (UE) according toclaim 7, wherein each subband includes a plurality of resource blocks(RBs).